Mandela, ANC Removed from U.S. Terrorism Watch List

Posted to the web 1 July 2008 Washington, DC President Bush today signed into law a measure by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA) that will eliminate a government-imposed stigma against association with the African National Congress of South Africa. Now the United States will remove from its databases any notation characterizing the ANC and its leaders -- including Nobel Laureate and former South African President Nelson Mandela -- as terrorists. “For many years under the old Apartheid regime, injustice heaped upon injustice as the world watched, and even complied,” said Berman, who is leading a Congressional delegation to South Africa. “Today the United States finally has removed from its legal code a vestige of that time of collective insults against human dignity. The label of ‘terrorist’ will... [read full story]